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5 days ago · In contrast to Hughes's appropriation of the form of black music, especially jazz and the blues, and his use of the black vernacular, Claude McKay and Countee Cullen utilized more traditional and classical forms for their poetry.
6 days ago · Poets.org offers information on notable Harlem Renaissance poets, including Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps, and Countee Cullen.
4 days ago · Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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3 days ago · Countee Cullen joined Hughes and McKay in criticizing conditions for African Americans. One of his briefest, most effective pieces is “ Incident ,” in which he portrays a young black boy who has a visit to Baltimore marred when a young white boy calls him a “nigger.”
5 days ago · In a sonnet, entitled Africa, his compatriot Claude McKay writes: The sun sought thy dim bed and brought out light. The sciences were suckling at thy breasts; When all the world was young in pregnant night, The slaves toiled at the monumental best.
4 days ago · In his poem “After the Winter,” Jamaican-born poet and novelist Claude McKay writes of a “summer isle / Where bamboos spire to shafted grove / And wide-mouthed orchids smile,” declaring that “… we will build a cottage there / Beside an open glade …”. It’s a serene, joyous vision offered to the speaker’s beloved, and it may ...
5 days ago · Such figures as the poets Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, and Claude McKay were leaders of this new realism. An important anthology of writings of this movement is Locke’s The New Negro (1925).
